CHAPTER VI.

OF SUFFERING WHICH MUST BE ACCEPTED AS FROM

GOD — ITS FRUITS.

IDE content with all the suflfering that God may lay upon you. If you will love Him purely, you wilb be as willing to follow Him to Calvary as to Tabor.

He must be loved as much on Calvary as on Tabor, since it is there that He makes the greatest manifestation of His love.

Do not act, then, like those people who give them-selves at one time, and take themselves back at another. They give themselves to be caressed, and take themselves back when they are crucified ; or else they seek for consolation in the creature.

You can only find consolation in the love of the cross and in complete abandonment. He who has no love for the cross has no love for God (see